Future Cast FM
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<p>Conversations about an optimistic future.</p>
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May 30, 2026
FutureCast 0016 - James Carter: Organized Junk Drawers
<p>James Carter served five years as a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman, the combat medic attached to Marine units. These days he calls himself "multi-local" — splitting his time across places rather than settling in one, most recently taking on a building renovation in Morocco. He resists fixed titles, preferring to describe himself as "an organized junk drawer": a working collection of skills and interests picked up along the way, none of which quite belong in any one category.</p><p>This is the first FutureCast recorded out in nature.</p><p></p><p>We get into: the difference between war and conflict and whether humans will ever see the end of either, why he'd rather we'd descended from bonobos than chimps, Buckminster Fuller's idea that you don't repair a broken system but build something new at its edge, how the social contract has been quietly rewritten since the Industrial Revolution, why an organized junk drawer is a better way to hold an identity than a tidy silverware drawer, belonging as a choice rather than a feeling and the gap between being welcome somewhere and truly living there, the study suggesting people end up happier with choices they're not allowed to reverse, Obama's rule about acting at fifty-one percent certainty, why moving somewhere to "pioneer" a community usually backfires and what integrating looks like instead.</p><p><br /><b>Timestamps</b></p><p>6:38 How James introduces himself: medic, neurobiology, multi-local</p><p>10:40 The organized junk drawer</p><p>17:59 Choosing your chaos vs. chaos imposed on you</p><p>24:32 Is the enemy real? Social media and complex systems</p><p>28:41 Is war uniquely human?</p><p>31:23 The social contract since the Industrial Revolution</p><p>34:33 Why record these conversations in nature</p><p>40:42 War vs. conflict, and whether it ever ends</p><p>42:57 Chimps, bonobos, and resolving conflict</p><p>45:55 Seeing people as people</p><p>54:25 "Left vs. right" feels antiquated</p><p>58:54 You never start from a blank slate — Buckminster Fuller</p><p>1:01:21 Going multi-local and finding fertile ground</p><p>1:09:01 You don't pioneer a community, you integrate</p><p>1:15:16 Neutral ground (and baseball in Morocco)</p><p>1:17:49 Fruit pause: rapid-fire silly questions</p><p>1:30:33 Why everyone's a "Doctor," and medic vs. doctor</p><p>1:35:59 The estimation game: a million vs. a billion</p><p>1:42:33 What does it mean to belong?</p><p>1:48:40 Welcome vs. belonging; belonging to a story</p><p>1:59:45 Choosing, the art study, and Obama's 51% rule</p><p>2:07:41 Three virtues for a cult</p><p>2:13:54 Sentimental objects, and a gift to a stranger</p><p></p><p><b>Find James: in the wild</b></p><p></p><p><b>People & Concepts Mentioned:</b></p><ul><li>Buckminster Fuller — systems thinker; the geodesic dome, and building new structures at the edges of old ones</li><li>Chimps vs. bonobos — two ways of resolving conflict, and which one we resemble</li><li>Internal vs. external locus of control — acting on the world versus being acted upon</li><li>Barack Obama — deciding once he's about fifty-one percent sure</li><li>Karl Marx — where unequal systems eventually lead</li><li>Mary Poppins — the bottomless bag, as a foil for the junk drawer</li><li>Ramadan & Eid al-Fitr — the village celebration behind the gift-giving story</li><li>The Industrial Revolution — the last comparable pivot in how we organize work and value</li><li>A behavioral-economics choice study — people rated art they couldn't swap higher than art they could</li></ul>
May 19, 2026
FutureCast 0015 - Janine Manning: Find The Problem Before The Tech
<p>Janine Manning is an angel investor from in New Zealand. She is practical and brilliant in a humble, curious sort of way. Over the last 15 years, she's backed a small number of companies and stayed actively involved on their boards — sitting in on all-hands calls, asking the questions other directors don't, and trying to read where the startups she's invested in really sit in their use of AI when she isn't a technical expert herself.</p><p></p><p>This was the first FutureCast in a new format. Instead of a long-form interview, we used the conversation itself as a working session — picking apart a real problem, ideating on solutions, and then running the transcript through a process to turn it into a product spec and prototype. Janine didn't prep anything. She brought the problem she keeps hitting.</p><p>We get into: why "yes, of course we're using AI" is the polite version of putting up a wall, the calendar problem that's still unsolved (Google, Outlook, WhatsApp, and a paper diary all fighting for the same space), the life manager idea Janine has been waiting for someone to build, sub-calendars that roll up to a main view without doubling everything, what happens to a family when nobody knows where the bank accounts are, Xero as a cautionary tale about adding features that make a good product worse, drafting a legal letter with ChatGPT and walking into the lawyer's office with the grunt work done, the Goldilocks problem of AI use in companies, why problem identification has to come before the tech, and what happens when you take a podcast transcript and ask it to build itself a product.</p><p></p><p><b>Find Janine:</b></p><ul><li>Linkedin: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/janine-manning-71b6a41b/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/janine-manning-71b6a41b/</a></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Find Tay:</b></p><ul><li>FutureCast: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://futurecast.fm" target="_blank">https://futurecast.fm</a></li></ul><p></p><p>The Mockup from the pod: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://hearth-tawny.vercel.app/" target="_blank">https://hearth-tawny.vercel.app/</a><br />(all data in this is fabricated, including names)</p><p></p><p><b>People & Concepts Mentioned:</b></p><ul><li>Xero — the New Zealand accounting platform, used as an example of feature creep making a good product worse</li><li>ChatGPT — used for drafting a legal letter before the lawyer review</li><li>Google Calendar and Outlook — the walled gardens that won't talk to each other</li><li>LinkedIn's contact import — early viral growth example referenced in the conversation</li><li>WhatsApp family groups — the default but messy community calendar</li><li>The Goldilocks problem — too much AI, too little AI, just right</li></ul>
May 18, 2026
FutureCast 0014 - Carly Feldman: a Conversation on ADHD, Novelty Sluts, and Anger as a Compass
<p>Carly Feldman is an integrative nutrition health coach, chef, and DJ based between Berlin and New York. She specializes in helping neurodivergent brains — especially those with ADHD — navigate dopamine, motivation, and the gap between knowing what to do and doing it. She runs the Dopamine Reset Challenge and is launching a Dopamine Reset Retreat in Bavaria. She also DJs in clubs in Berlin and New York with what she calls her truest artistic expression — messy transitions, impulsive selection, and a hard-won willingness to post the imperfect set.</p><p></p><p>Carly and I have crossed paths in a few cities and keep landing in the same global network of weird, generous, unapologetic humans. We recorded this on March 31, 2026 while she was back in New York for a month, deep in retreat-planning and a few degrees more overwhelmed than her usual.</p><p></p><p>We get into: the morning phone trap and why we keep falling into it even when we coach other people not to, procrastinating on one hard thing by doing another hard thing, the ADHD brain's addiction to novelty and how to stop fighting it, ChatGPT confirmation bias and the client who spent three days convinced she had a parasite, Tay's failed experiment trying to record a podcast with an AI, being a "novelty slut" and the case for limiting your own options, maximizers vs satisficers and why a vegan menu was a relief, what makes a value a real value (it's what you get angry about), the homophobic guy in Mazunte and the love letter Carly wrote him with a heart on the outside, the DJ back-to-back from four years ago that came full circle in a New York club last week, the imperfect New Year's set that became her most-played, and Rejection Collection (we're maybe doing it).</p><p></p><p><b>Find Carly:</b></p><ul><li>Website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://carlyfeldman.com" target="_blank">https://carlyfeldman.com</a></li><li>Dopamine Reset Retreat: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://carlyfeldman.com/dopamineresetretreat" target="_blank">https://carlyfeldman.com/dopamineresetretreat</a></li><li>SoundCloud: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://soundcloud.com/karlimusik" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/karlimusik</a></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Find Tay:</b></p><ul><li>Nature Club — a platform for finding activities, retreats, and classes based in nature (mentioned in this episode)</li><li>Rejection Collection — app concept discussed in this episode</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Books Mentioned:</b></p><ul><li>Existential Kink — Carolyn Elliott</li></ul><p></p><p><b>People & Concepts Mentioned:</b></p><ul><li>Maximizers vs satisficers — research distinction on decision-making and happiness</li><li>Decision fatigue — the cost of having unlimited options</li><li>Rejection therapy — collecting rejections as a resilience practice</li><li>Nicholas Jaar — electronic musician; the concert that was a gateway into Carly's NYC community</li><li>Burning Man community — the global network seeded by one introduction in 2016</li></ul>
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